I’ve Read This Savage Song, Now What?

Our YA book club read This Savage Song by Victoria Schwab and most of us really loved the urban fantasy story. We even made plans to discuss part 2 when this one comes out next year, so I feel confident to say that this was a hit! However, part 2 isn’t coming out for quite a while yet, so here are some other recommendations to tide you over until then. There will also be some discussion questions at the end in case you’re discussing the novel with your own book club.

In a continent on the edge of war, two witches hold its fate in their hands.

Young witches Safiya and Iseult have a habit of finding trouble. After clashing with a powerful Guildmaster and his ruthless Bloodwitch bodyguard, the friends are forced to flee their home.

Safi must avoid capture at all costs as she’s a rare Truthwitch, able to discern truth from lies. Many would kill for her magic, so Safi must keep it hidden – lest she be used in the struggle between empires. And Iseult’s true powers are hidden even from herself.

In a chance encounter at Court, Safi meets Prince Merik and makes him a reluctant ally. However, his help may not slow down the Bloodwitch now hot on the girls’ heels. All Safi and Iseult want is their freedom, but danger lies ahead. With war coming, treaties breaking and a magical contagion sweeping the land, the friends will have to fight emperors and mercenaries alike. For some will stop at nothing to get their hands on a Truthwitch.

Under the streets of London there’s a place most people could never even dream of. A city of monsters and saints, murderers and angels, knights in armour and pale girls in black velvet. This is the city of the people who have fallen between the cracks.

Richard Mayhew, a young businessman, is going to find out more than enough about this other London. A single act of kindness catapults him out of his workday existence and into a world that is at once eerily familiar and utterly bizarre. And a strange destiny awaits him down here, beneath his native city: neverwhere.

Discussion Questions:– Was there romance between August and Kate? – How are Kate and August different from ‘standard’ YA protagonists? – Where do you think Kate goes at the end of the novel?

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